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Since the Day of ‘Arafah is already drawing near;
If you do not know the difference between Laylatul Qadr and the Day of ‘Arafah, then reflect on this:
If you do not know the difference between Laylatul Qadr and the Day of ‘Arafah, then reflect on this:
On Laylatul Qadr, the angels descend to the earth:
The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. (Surah Al-Qadr 97:4)
And the Spirit is Jibreel (A.S).
As for the Day of ‘Arafah:
The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. (Surah Al-Qadr 97:4)
And the Spirit is Jibreel (A.S).
As for the Day of ‘Arafah:
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“There is no day on which Allah frees more people from the Fire than the Day of ‘Arafah. He draws near, then boasts about them to the angels.” (Sahih Muslim 1348)
“There is no day on which Allah frees more people from the Fire than the Day of ‘Arafah. He draws near, then boasts about them to the angels.” (Sahih Muslim 1348)
🧵THREAD: The White House Press team is actively denying my correspondent from obtaining White House Press Credentials.
This has been going on for over a month. Our team has asked every question as to why this is happening. We even issued a legal inquiry to the WH legal counsel about this issue regarding temporary press credentials.
WH Press Team Response: “I don't think we will be able to accommodate you anytime in the near future.” Followed by: “What do you plan on covering?”
We are now facing radio silence from the White House Press team.
This has been going on for over a month. Our team has asked every question as to why this is happening. We even issued a legal inquiry to the WH legal counsel about this issue regarding temporary press credentials.
WH Press Team Response: “I don't think we will be able to accommodate you anytime in the near future.” Followed by: “What do you plan on covering?”
We are now facing radio silence from the White House Press team.
#2: Our WH Correspondent @MichaelCasey_ has been following each WH press protocol for obtaining a temporary press badge. In the past, our team has been able to get approved for temporary WH press credentials. Email shown below: 
#3: In the past month, the language from the WH press team has changed from “I don't think we will be able to accommodate you anytime in the near future.” to now asking our correspondent, “What do you plan on covering?”
What story made them WH upset? Why is the WH asking us what we plan on covering?
What story made them WH upset? Why is the WH asking us what we plan on covering?
Post 1/6
Democrats are wailing about “waste, fraud & abuse” in Arizona’s ESA school choice program.
Fine — fix the oversight gaps.
But they never ask the real question:
Why are tens of thousands of families fleeing public schools in droves?
Hint: It’s not because the traditional system is efficiently run. 🧵
Democrats are wailing about “waste, fraud & abuse” in Arizona’s ESA school choice program.
Fine — fix the oversight gaps.
But they never ask the real question:
Why are tens of thousands of families fleeing public schools in droves?
Hint: It’s not because the traditional system is efficiently run. 🧵
2/6
Arizona public district schools spent $13.4 billion in FY2025.
Yet instructional spending (actual teaching) dropped to just 52.1% of the budget — the lowest percentage in over 20 years.
More money going to admin, bureaucracy, buildings, and operations instead of classrooms.
Arizona public district schools spent $13.4 billion in FY2025.
Yet instructional spending (actual teaching) dropped to just 52.1% of the budget — the lowest percentage in over 20 years.
More money going to admin, bureaucracy, buildings, and operations instead of classrooms.
3/6
Arizona ranks 49th in the nation in per-pupil spending… and dead last in class sizes.
Parents see the results: stagnant test scores, discipline problems, ideology creeping in, and constant cries for more money with little improvement.
So they’re voting with their feet.
Arizona ranks 49th in the nation in per-pupil spending… and dead last in class sizes.
Parents see the results: stagnant test scores, discipline problems, ideology creeping in, and constant cries for more money with little improvement.
So they’re voting with their feet.
For the last two years, my life was a blur of breaking news alerts and the relentless machinery of national power. Leading the teams at USA TODAY was a sprint through an era being rewritten in real-time. It was essential, exhausting, and—to be honest—deafening.
But after 30+ years in this business—from analog football scrimmages to the digital trenches of Politico and Insider—I’ve realized something: The faster the news moves, the more we need a place to slow down.
It's why I’m coming home to love, journalism. Over the coming weeks, I’m turning the space into a laboratory for the future of storytelling. My goal is to pull back the curtain on why we do this work, exploring stories of adversity, the projects journalists are most proud of, and how we navigate these turbulent times.
Right fucking now
Players earning money, out in the open, in a free market
Historically bad program winning a championship
Teams with gigantic spending failing terribly
10-15 programs with a legitimate chance at a title
End of the ESPN-SEC 1000 year reich
What's not to like?
Historically bad program winning a championship
Teams with gigantic spending failing terribly
10-15 programs with a legitimate chance at a title
End of the ESPN-SEC 1000 year reich
What's not to like?
Iowa has about the lowest transfer turnover in the country. Because they recruit underrated 2-3 stars with chips on their shoulders who remain loyal. Pay $2 million for a 5-star, don't be surprised when he considers the deal purely transactional.
1. August 17, 2021, was the date the CIA's COVID Discovery Team was forced to officially finalize & submit their changed conclusion.
Prior to August 17, 2021, 6 out of 7 members of the team had concluded with "low confidence" that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Prior to August 17, 2021, 6 out of 7 members of the team had concluded with "low confidence" that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.
2. The whistleblower just testified that following pressure & interference from mid-level & senior CIA leadership, the team's lab-leak findings were suppressed.
3. On August 17, 2021, the team was forced to reverse its stance and officially submit a conclusion stating they were unable to determine the origin, which formed the basis of the declassified ODNI report released later that month.
You don’t need a lawyer to transfer your home into a trust, but you must follow the correct legal steps. Here’s the full process.
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📣 @FayeRCTribunal who has won her case against NHS England!
Congratulations to Naomi Cunningham and Liz McGlone representing 👏👏👏
Tribunal finds the policy of permitting "trans women" to use female facilities was harassment in relation to sex & GC belief and its trans equality proceedure was harassment in relation to GC belief.
Congratulations to Naomi Cunningham and Liz McGlone representing 👏👏👏
Tribunal finds the policy of permitting "trans women" to use female facilities was harassment in relation to sex & GC belief and its trans equality proceedure was harassment in relation to GC belief.
The claimant "LS" claimed that NHS England indirectly discriminated against women, Muslim women and women with PTSD relating to male sexual violence because of their policy of permitting trans staff to use the facilities of their gender identity at their offices.
💥 The Tribunal decided that the claimant’s complaint of indirect sex discrimination succeeded because the respondent failed to show that its policy was “a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”.
- there is no express legal right for a trans person to use the single-sex facilities of their gender identity under the EqA or under Workplace Regs 1992;
- the respondent’s aims (including its aim of respecting the gender identity of its staff) were legitimate. But there was no express consideration of the impact on female staff.
- the respondent should have considered an alternative measure i.e. permitting trans staff to use gender neutral facilities. The Tribunal concluded that doing so would have had a lesser impact on its much larger number of female staff.
💥 The Tribunal decided that the claimant’s complaint of indirect sex discrimination succeeded because the respondent failed to show that its policy was “a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”.
- there is no express legal right for a trans person to use the single-sex facilities of their gender identity under the EqA or under Workplace Regs 1992;
- the respondent’s aims (including its aim of respecting the gender identity of its staff) were legitimate. But there was no express consideration of the impact on female staff.
- the respondent should have considered an alternative measure i.e. permitting trans staff to use gender neutral facilities. The Tribunal concluded that doing so would have had a lesser impact on its much larger number of female staff.
The claimant claimed that NHS England harassed her related to sex and GC belief by having a policy of allowing TW to use women’s single-sex facilities and because of the wording of the Procedure itself.
NHS England accepted that the policy and wording had the effect of violating the claimant’s dignity or creating a hostile, intimidating, humiliating or degrading environment for her but said that it was not reasonable to have that effect on the claimant.
💥 The Tribunal decided that it was reasonable for the policy to have the Harassment Effect on the claimant in relation to her sex and gender critical belief.
NHS England accepted that the policy and wording had the effect of violating the claimant’s dignity or creating a hostile, intimidating, humiliating or degrading environment for her but said that it was not reasonable to have that effect on the claimant.
💥 The Tribunal decided that it was reasonable for the policy to have the Harassment Effect on the claimant in relation to her sex and gender critical belief.
This is how angels look according to the Bible.
Here's a breakdown of the 9 different types, and why they say when they appear:
"Be not afraid"...
Here's a breakdown of the 9 different types, and why they say when they appear:
"Be not afraid"...
"Angel" (from the Greek "angelos") just means messenger. We think of God's messengers as winged humanoids, but encounters in the Bible get far more interesting than that...
Theologians have spent centuries making sense of their various descriptions.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite identified 9 distinct types of angel, from the mostly-humanoid to the much more abstract.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite identified 9 distinct types of angel, from the mostly-humanoid to the much more abstract.
Supreme Court remarks on women empowerment and patriarchal mindset in a divorce case between an Army officer (husband) and a dentist (wife) - Thread 🧵
The couple was granted divorce by the family court and the high court on the ground of cruelty and desertion by the wife for starting her own dental clinic away from Kargil, where her husband was posted.
The wife approached the Supreme Court not disputing the divorce, but seeking expungement of findings on cruelty and desertion.
Court: In the present world, where women are making strides in leaps and bounds, merely because the husband was an Army Officer posted in a remote location, the expectation that the wife could not even think of pursuing her career in Dentistry, is indicative of regressive and feudalistic mindset.
The couple was granted divorce by the family court and the high court on the ground of cruelty and desertion by the wife for starting her own dental clinic away from Kargil, where her husband was posted.
The wife approached the Supreme Court not disputing the divorce, but seeking expungement of findings on cruelty and desertion.
Court: In the present world, where women are making strides in leaps and bounds, merely because the husband was an Army Officer posted in a remote location, the expectation that the wife could not even think of pursuing her career in Dentistry, is indicative of regressive and feudalistic mindset.
Court: It must be emphasised that a well-educated and professionally qualified woman cannot be expected to be confined within the rigid boundaries of matrimonial obligations alone. Marriage does not eclipse her individuality, nor does it subjugate her identity under that of her spouse.
Court: The expectation that a woman must invariably sacrifice her career and conform to traditional notions of an obedient wife meant for cohabitation, irrespective of her own aspirations or the welfare of the child, reflects a line of reasoning that is archaic, ultra-conservative, and cannot be countenanced.
Court: The expectation that a woman must invariably sacrifice her career and conform to traditional notions of an obedient wife meant for cohabitation, irrespective of her own aspirations or the welfare of the child, reflects a line of reasoning that is archaic, ultra-conservative, and cannot be countenanced.
Court: What is portrayed as defiance in the impugned judgments is, in truth, an assertion of independence; what is labelled as desertion is, on a closer scrutiny, a consequence of circumstances shaped by professional commitments.
Gossip Goblin is arguably the best AI filmmaker in the world.
His new film THE PATCHWRIGHT is a masterpiece (10M+ views).
But nobody knows how he actually makes these.
Until now.
He let me share every step of the workflow with you 🧵👇
His new film THE PATCHWRIGHT is a masterpiece (10M+ views).
But nobody knows how he actually makes these.
Until now.
He let me share every step of the workflow with you 🧵👇
2/ This is 4 months of work for 20 minutes of film, set in a world he's been building for years
The Patchwright didn't start from scratch.
Zach has been making 2 to 3 episodes a week in this universe for 11 months, so by the time he sat down to write the film he already had tens of thousands of midjourney images to pull from, established characters, a custom alphabet, even a custom language.
People love to ask about the tools but honestly the accumulated story bible is doing a huge amount of the heavy lifting here.
The Patchwright didn't start from scratch.
Zach has been making 2 to 3 episodes a week in this universe for 11 months, so by the time he sat down to write the film he already had tens of thousands of midjourney images to pull from, established characters, a custom alphabet, even a custom language.
People love to ask about the tools but honestly the accumulated story bible is doing a huge amount of the heavy lifting here.
3/ Visual exploration follows the story beats
The film opens in a corporate penthouse, descends through an aerial ship sequence, and lands on the gritty street.
So they broke their aesthetic exploration down by altitude. Penthouse, ship interior, midair city, street level, wet market.
Before animating anything in Kling, each location got its own dedicated midjourney pass, and then a nano banana pass to insert consistent characters in those midjourney "plate shots".
The film opens in a corporate penthouse, descends through an aerial ship sequence, and lands on the gritty street.
So they broke their aesthetic exploration down by altitude. Penthouse, ship interior, midair city, street level, wet market.
Before animating anything in Kling, each location got its own dedicated midjourney pass, and then a nano banana pass to insert consistent characters in those midjourney "plate shots".
Hi, I’m Layla! I’ll be live-tweeting today’s 9:00 a.m. Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners Meeting. #CHIDocumenters @CHIdocumenters
Here is the link to today’s meeting agenda: chicagoparkdistrict.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&…
The meeting has been called into order at 9:00 a.m. promptly and the pledge of allegiance and roll call has been completed.
